Genus Cophura

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Print References

Small Robber Fly at high altitude. - Cophura brevicornis - female

Anterior legs of small Robber Fly - Cophura brevicornis - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Orthorrhapha" (Brachycera excluding Aschiza and Schizophora))

Superfamily Asiloidea

Family Asilidae (Robber Flies)

Subfamily Dasypogoninae

Genus Cophura

Numbers

24 species in N. America

Identification

First flagellomere unnotched; male with 7 visible abdominal tergites, wing hyaline or brown only on basal two-thirds, not spotted; pulvilli present; face plane or rounded; scutum without crest of hairs; protibial spur present but thin and sigmoid.

Range

Western US and Canada

Print References

Ch. 42 Manual of Nearctic Diptera

Contributed by Keith Bayless on 4 September, 2007 - 4:39pm

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